At Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:46:00 -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > Michael Torrie wrote: > > Yes, but what about the critical piece, the server? So far as I know > > there is no exchange replacement out there. Is this correct? Or maybe > > I'm thinking there's no drop-in replacement for exchange itself. > > Well, there's at least one open source server out there > <http://opengroupware.mirrors.nks.net/>. Used to be closed source, but > open now. Looks like it has potential. > > Also, most iCalendar software just uses WebDAV <http://www.webdav.org/> > to publish calendars. Then you can use software like PHP iCalendar > <http://phpicalendar.sourceforge.net/> to display the calendar, or just > let people subscribe to it with their calendar software. > > My calendar (a work in progress) is on > <http://jorgensenfamily.us/~andrew/calendar/>. The iCalendar file was > created with Evolution and is viewed with PHP iCalendar. I used scp to > publish it, but WebDAV wouldn't have been hard to do. > > What I don't get is why I can't just store my iCalendar files on an IMAP > server. Seems like doing so would take care of all the functionality > exchange provides. I can invite people to meetings by sending them an > event by email. I can contribute to a public calendar by saving it in a > public folder. So what's the big deal? What does exchange really do that > Courier can't? Is it really just a matter of writing a client that > knows to do that?
I don't know, but maybe it's the nifty way outlook/exchange allows you to schedule meetings and see when people are free and busy that would be missing. I think you might be on to something though, I connect to our exchange server at work with evolution through imap and I can see my tasks folder and my calendar folder in evolution, it just displays my tasks and calendar appointments as e-mail messages. Shouldn't be too much of a stretch from there to make it realize that those are tasks or calendar items, right? Bryan _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
